In this photo released by the official website of the Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader, mourners attend a funeral ceremony for Iranian Gen. Qassem Soleimani and his comrades, who were killed in Iraq in a U.S. drone attack on Friday, Jan. 3 as Azadi (freedom) tower is seen in the foreground, in Tehran, Iran, Monday, Jan. 6, 2020. The funeral for Soleimani drew a crowd said by police to be in the millions in the Iranian capital, filling thoroughfares and side streets as far as the eye could see. (Office of the Iranian Supreme Leader via AP)

Will US generals obey
the commander in chief?

The president has clearly demonstrated that he has no respect nor regard for Congress or the Constitution when it comes to initiating war.

He is in effect acting as a one-man autocrat, a virtual military dictator, and we have ample evidence in history about where that takes a nation. Neither his White House staff nor his cabinet officers seem willing, much less able, to constrain the president’s dangerous impetuousness.

Sooner or later it will fall to his generals to decide whether or not the United States is to travel down a calamitous, bloody path in the Mideast. They will have to decide whether to obey orders or somehow thwart the commander in chief. How might that choice be made? And then what?